The new Brazil

I waited a day before writing my final 99 on the Euro. I tried hard to find fault with the newly crowned champions. The only blemish was perhaps, and this a stretch, that they had to use a Brazilian-raised player, Marcos Senna, in the team. Other than that, Spain is perhaps the new Brazil of world football. Besides Italy and Greece, the tournament was about free flowing, attractive, attacking football. And to that end, Spain, the best proponents of that style, were fitting winners. My player of the tournament is Madrid’s Sergio Ramos. He took out Russia. And Germany.